wry, wrien

i. . [A.S. wrigian =to drive, to impel, to tend or bend toward. Wriggle is a frequent. from this verb. Cf. Goth. wraikws = crooked.] A. Intransitive : 1. To swerve, move or go oblique is, to go or move aside; to turn away. "Than the kyng wryed away fro hym."-Berners: Froi art's Cronucle vol. i, ch. cxivii. 2. To deviate from the right path morally; to go wrong or astray. "These wry too much on the right hand, ascribing to the holy scripture such kind of perfection as it cannot have."-Sandys. *4. Deviating from what is right or becoming; misdirected, wrong, false. "If he now and then make a wry step."- Gilpin: Ser. mons, vol. iv., ser. 14. *5. Wrested, perverted. "The first with divers crooks and turning wries." P. Fletcher: Purple Island, v. wry-mouthed, a. Having the mouth awry. "If e'er they call upon me I'll so fit 'em, I have a pack of wry -mouth'd mackrel ladies, Stink like a standing ditch."